TIL people don’t know about rosetta stone. My mom loves ancient Egypt so information like this was my “daily bread” when I was little, never realized that this isn’t common
Yeah I remember learning about this in elementary school.
Also about fourth grade history.
The funniest part was that when it was discovered, it had been used as a brick for building material.
In a way, it still is 🤯
TIL the Rosetta Stone is a real thing and not some dungeons and dragons myth shit.
It’s even crazier there’s demonic written on it. I thought it’s something made up by Christianity.
Demotic, not demonic. Demotic is simplified Egyptian used by every day people there at the time. Typically, only the priests used the form of hieroglyphs we’d see on tombs. “Demotic” means colloquial, or common, speech.
Thanks for the explanation. I really need to get some sleep before I misread again
Did you mean Demotic?
You only heard about the Rosetta Stone today?
turns out a lot of people didn’t pay attention in 6th grade social studies.
Still took them 20 years to fully decipher the hieroglyphics.
It turns out the Rosetta stone isn’t actually unique. It was simply the first example found of what cane to be known as the Decree of Memphis. It was required to be put in every temple. I think the rally of these stones is up to six currently.
